Post-Op Reflections

This Veterans Day, the American Warrior Association proudly launches Post-Op Reflections, a new video podcast that gives service members, veterans, first responders, and their families the microphone to share raw, real stories of moral injury, healing, and unbreakable purpose. Full episode drops 11.11.25.Subscribe now. Share with a hero who needs to know they’re not alone.

Post-Op Reflections is a society podcast hosted by The American Warrior Association, with 12 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

The American Warrior Association hosts Post-Op Reflections, a society show with 12 episodes published.

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  Episode #12

  #012 | Rob Van Winkle (Vanilla Ice) - Stay on the Dance Floor

  Sep 26, 202657 minS0

  <p>A special, shorter episode of Post-Op Reflections™. Rob Van Winkle, known to the world as Vanilla Ice, sat down with hosts Will Spencer and Neil Noakes at AWA Studios in Fort Worth, and the hour belonged to him: his mother’s rule to “stay on the dance floor,” growing up broke in Farmers Branch, the shoes he pulled out of a dumpster off Harry Hines, the 5.0 Mustang his mom co-signed and the house he bought her six months after “Ice Ice Baby” hit, and the tenth-grade kid who went on the Stop the Violence tour and by the next Monday was “...

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  Episode #12

  #012 | Rob Van Winkle (Vanilla Ice) - Stay on the Dance Floor

  Sep 26, 202657 min

  A special, shorter episode of Post-Op Reflections™. Rob Van Winkle, known to the world as Vanilla Ice, sat down with hosts Will Spencer and Neil Noakes at AWA Studios in Fort Worth, and the hour belonged to him: his mother’s rule to “stay on the dance floor,” growing up broke in Farmers Branch, the shoes he pulled out of a dumpster off Harry Hines, the 5.0 Mustang his mom co-signed and the house he bought her six months after “Ice Ice Baby” hit, and the tenth-grade kid who went on the Stop the Violence tour and by the next Monday was “a popular kid in school real quick.” Then the conversation opens up: what pop culture gave a generation that knew who it was, what the “cyber world” is taking from one that doesn’t, why he wants the ’90s back, and why he believes love is the greatest gift we have and the thing that can unite us all. Will brings a night in Iraq; Rob brings his own. And Rob tells the stories that changed him: a Make-A-Wish kid named John with his posters on the wall, the Little Smiles kids in Palm Beach and the North Pole he built for them in an airplane hangar, and the Marine buddy who couldn’t make it past the first hospital room. Those are the places where he learned that smiles are contagious and you had better give one. Post-Op Reflections™ is a production of the American Warrior Association, confronting moral injury to restore hope and renew purpose for service members, veterans, first responders, and their families through faith-based programs like Warrior’s Refuge™ and the R3 Program™. Learn more at www.awa-usa.org. Whatever you carry, you are not alone, and healing is still within reach. Produced by the American Warrior Association. Debrief the Soul. Reclaim the Spirit.

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  Episode #11

  #011 | Daylon Swearingen - Don't Limit God: A Broken Back & an Unbreakable Faith

  Aug 7, 20262h 10m

  Daylon Swearingen rode a bull to the whistle at the PBR World Finals — and the ride counted. The next day he was on an operating table with a fractured T10 vertebra. Ten weeks later, he sat down with hosts Will Spencer and Neil Noakes for one of the most honest conversations Post-Op Reflections has ever recorded. The 2022 PBR World Champion — the first New York native ever to win it — grew up a rodeo kid in Piffard, New York, wearing his grandpa's chaps and carrying his mother's Bible verses in his gear bag. His mother's own story anchors this episode: shot twice by Daylon's biological father after she filed a restraining order, she survived, became a nurse, and raised two boys on faith and perseverance. When the hosts name what Daylon and his brother carried out of that childhood — moral injury — he says it's the first time he's ever heard the term. Along the way, Daylon takes us inside the sport: why bull riders compete against the bull and not each other, the bullfighters who lay their bodies over fallen riders, the concussion battles he hid when he was young, the helmet that saved his life — now in the Cowboy Hall of Fame — and the mentality he leans on before every ride: he rides with his left hand down and pictures God riding with His right, balancing him out. His rule for the broken seasons of life is the same one he gives young riders and struggling warriors alike: don't limit God. Post-Op Reflections is a production of the American Warrior Association, confronting moral injury to restore hope and renew purpose for service members, veterans, first responders, and their families. Learn more at www.awa-usa.org. Whatever arena you fight in, you are not alone — and healing is still within reach.

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  Episode #11

  #011 | Daylon Swearingen - Don't Limit God: A Broken Back & an Unbreakable Faith

  Aug 7, 20262h 10mS0

  <p>Daylon Swearingen rode a bull to the whistle at the PBR World Finals — and the ride counted. The next day he was on an operating table with a fractured T10 vertebra. Ten weeks later, he sat down with hosts Will Spencer and Neil Noakes for one of the most honest conversations Post-Op Reflections has ever recorded.</p><p>The 2022 PBR World Champion — the first New York native ever to win it — grew up a rodeo kid in Piffard, New York, wearing his grandpa's chaps and carrying his mother's Bible verses in his gear bag. His mother's own story anchors this e...

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  Episode #10

  #010 | Chris Cassidy - A SEAL, an Astronaut & a Life of Service

  Jul 4, 20262h 9mS0

  <p>Chris Cassidy has done what almost no American has ever done. He served ten years as a U.S. Navy SEAL — deploying to Afghanistan in the earliest weeks after 9/11 as a Ground Assault Force Commander, earning two Bronze Stars, one with "V" for valor, and a Presidential Unit Citation. Then NASA selected him. He flew three missions to the International Space Station, spent 378 days in space, completed 10 spacewalks, and served as Chief of the Astronaut Office. He is one of only three Americans ever to wear both the SEAL Trident and the astronaut pin.</p><p>In this raw, ho...

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